Word: mathematician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...royal family, and as traditional as Bushido in its programs. But once unbound by the Allies, it soon paced the campaign for a democratic Japan. Last week, to help it stay on its own feet, the Broadcasting Corp. of Japan had a new, liberal president: an unobtrusive mathematician, Kinnosuke Ogura...
Greater University. Largely because he has fought so ardently for his conception of freedom, Frank Graham has attracted to Chapel Hill one of the sprightliest, ablest faculties in the U.S., men of the caliber of Sociologist Howard Odum, Mathematician and Biographer Archibald Henderson, Playwright Paul Green. And Dr. Frank has nourished such educational plants as Albert Coates's Institute of Government (which each year trains scores of North Carolina sheriffs, tax collectors, and small fry officials); the Playmakers and the Department of Dramatic Art; a drama school rivaling Yale's and Carnegie Tech's; an outstanding university...
...seem as if the Committee's proposals for prescribed curricula are antithical to freedom. But a sound democracy can be built only on an informal and intelligent electorate, and specialism does not dispose to political sophistication. A mathematician can be victimized by a Huey Long, whereas, as William James said, an educated person knows a good man when he sees...
...Schillinger "scientific method" of composition, Shaw said, had its beginning in the teachings of the Greek philosopher-mathematician Pythagoras and of Johann
From France came Frédéric and Irène Joliot-Curie, and Mathematician Henri Laugier. Among England's delegation of 20 were Biologist Julian Huxley, Royal Academician Sir Robert Robinson. England would have sent more but for Winston Churchill's last-minute refusal to grant exit visas to some ten men engaged in war research. From the U.S. came 16, including Harvard's Astronomer Harlow Shapley and General Electric's Chemist Irving Langmuir...